The majority of respondents regarded unions to be important for Australian working people today (57%), whilst 34% believe that they were not important. These results have changed little since this question was asked in May.

78% of Labor voters and 82% of Greens voters believed that unions were important for Australian working people today, while Coalition voters were the most likely to regard unions as not important (56%).

The majority of full time workers (55%) and part time workers (65%) regarded unions as important for Australian working people today.